A lot of my joy this year has been to give away awards to young people, no matter of race, creed or color, because they were a terrific violinist or a terrific dancer.
Anyway, what am I saying except that I have a photographic memory and I was there at the beginning of a lot of extraordinary careers.
Do I really want to just do gratuitous nudity? Do I want to do gratuitous violence? No, I don't. I've turned down quite a bit.
Even though I'm not in Susan Sarandon's or Meryl Streep's position right now in the sense of recognizability of my work, the work is out there.
Everyone should have a moment with Ron Howard in their life to give you faith in our industry.
For me, my salvation has always been painting, dancing, directing, producing, playing piano, writing poetry - creativity.
I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity.
I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression.
I didn't go to college, not that I don't think people should, but I didn't because I was Off-Broadway when I was 17, with James Earl Jones.
I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English I was allowed to write my own poetry, which I eventually got published.
I had no idea that he was going to write that, but I've always believed that insecurity was what would keep you always in your innocence, no matter what the business did.
I have married thriteen couples. I'm about to do a marriage next month.
I have some great stories and I will get around to writing a book.
I made a conscious decision back then that I would rather be the best actress who ever lived than the most famous one.
I really think that women should be allowed to be more European, in this country.
I suppose if I wanted to be the girl next door, I could have been. I think America is confused by someone who appears to be sexual and spiritual at the same time.
I taught Sandra Bullock when no one knew who she was. I talked her out of quitting. I put her in a showcase.
I think I'm more European in personality.
I think that souls agree to come in and do what they're going to do and then leave when they're going to leave. So there's nothing tragic when a soul leaves. I think it was already preordained.
I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them, because they are the language and the behavior. It's all a tour-de-force performance.
I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools.
If there is a kind of talent among youngsters, then why don't we the people, our government and state, put money into teachers?
In Europe you can be Sophia, you can be these older women who are considered very sexy.
In the case of Marilyn and John Kennedy, I think they did affect change.
My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.
My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.
My favorite actresses were Geraldine Paige, Anne Bancroft and Kim Stanley.
My point is that, over the years, I've taught five thousand people acting and lately I have a lot of energy on these kids, having the same break I had as a high school girl.
Oh. I do feel very strongly about filmmakers. If there's a certain filmmaker, then I will do whatever they ask me to do.
Our church has been legal since late 1960s. I've been involved since 1972. I was ordained in 1975.
Probably what my comment meant was that I don't care about the circumstances if I can tell the truth.
She was a genius, my mother.
So I have this ability, if I may say so, to spot talent.
So, I think that Marilyn, what she gave the world, and in many ways Kennedy too, was that they had dreams and they didn't allow anybody to take away their dreams.
Souls have agreed to come in and live out a certain script and to leave and to affect change - whether it's in one family or a million people.
The only thing that I could think of to do was to be an actress.
We wear our hearts on our sleeves and if people come at us with negativity, our strength, our armor is that the Sword of Truth.
When I was a youngster, I had art, drama, dance, singing, and now it's a stretch to have trained teachers on those subjects.
When I was growing up watching Marilyn Monroe, I learned that you can be very beautiful, very glamorous and very vulnerable and not give up your soul just because you were a movie star.
With my ministry of light, part of what I do is work on the California Alliance For Arts Education.
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